Good MorningEquity markets began the week in retreat after stronger-than-expected economic data renewed fear of the FOMC. The data included and hotter than expected reads on ISM services and Factory Orders that suggest underlying economic momentum is still strong. the risk now is the FOMC will slow the pace of interest rate hikes but raise the end target and extend the duration of higher rates. In this light, investors should expect to see core FOMC interest rates top 5.25% in 2023, a mortgage to top 10%, and for these conditions to linger well into 2024.
The market may get another shock later in the week. The producer price index is due out on Friday and may be hotter than expected. The takeaway here is that any increase in producer prices will lead to additional increases in consumer inflation down the road. As for the S&P 500, the index fell more than 2.0% at the low of the day, closed near the low of the session and appears to be confirming a new downtrend in stocks. Featured: 66,000% upside on tiny biotech? (Behind the Markets) 
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Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) shares are sliding and there is no one simple answer. The stock split that took effect in August is still weighing on the stock, for one thing, and there are several other headwinds for the market to bear as well. Among them is reports from Bloomberg that Tesla will cut produc... Read the Full Story |
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The story on Splunk Inc. (NASDAQ: SPLK) isn’t an unfamiliar one.
During the early months of the pandemic, the software stock soared to record highs on the accelerated digital transformation (not to mention stay-at-home trader euphoria).
As normalization and Fed rate hikes then set in... Read the Full Story |
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Politics | | | China’s leaders eulogized the late Jiang Zemin on Tuesday as a loyal Marxist-Leninist who oversaw their country’s rapid economic rise while maintaining rigid Communist Party control over society.
President and current party leader Xi Jinping praised Jiang in an hour-long address at Be... Read the Full Story |
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Politics | | | The major freight railroads now face pressure from investors to add sick days after Congress declined to require them as part of the contracts they imposed last week to avert a potentially devastating nationwide rail strike Read the Full Story |
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Tech | | | The unabashedly liberal city of San Francisco became the unlikely proponent of weaponized police robots last week after supervisors approved limited use of the remote-controlled devices, addressing head-on an evolving technology that has become more widely available even if it is rarely deployed to ... Read the Full Story |
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From Our PartnersInvestors are making an absolute killing on the global EV boom by investing directly in the world's future suppliers of lithium, aka the "white petroleum." The global lithium battery market is now on pace to eclipse $100 Billion by 2024. Here's a tiny, unknown 25-cent stock that just secured two key lithium assets nearby to Tesla's Gigafactory in Nevada. | | | | Grab it while it's still cheap. |
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CrowdStrike Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ:CRWD) is a prime example of what can happen when the herd mentality turns bearish. The cybersecurity stock fell to a 52-week low last week as the market slammed a third quarter earnings report that would’ve been applauded in a stronger economy.
Contrary to... Read the Full Story |
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Politics | | | Australia's central bank has raised its benchmark interest rate by a quarter-point to 3.1% as it continues trying to wrestle down inflation.
The increase was the bank's eighth in a row and took the rate to its highest level in 10 years.
Still, Australia's rate hikes h... Read the Full Story |
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Politics | | | California could become the first state to fine big oil companies for making too much money, a reaction to the industry's supersized profits following a summer of record-high gas prices in the nation's most populous state.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and his Democratic allies in the state Legi... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Contract semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries (NYSE: GFS) is the fourth largest producer of computer chips producing 7% of the world’s supply. This pales compared to the 53% market share controlled by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (NYSE: TSM). It’s ironic that Gl... Read the Full Story |
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Markets | | | Enterprise data storage solutions provider Pure Storage, Inc. (NYSE: PSTG) stock has been buoyant this year throughout the semiconductor bust cycle. Data storage chip makers and producers experienced normalization as companies pulled back on spending after a strong 2021 rebound. Pure Storage managed... Read the Full Story |
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Tuesday's Early Bird Stock Of The Day Diamondback Energy, Inc., an independent oil and natural gas company, acquires, develops, explores, and exploits unconventional, onshore oil and natural gas reserves in the Permian Basin in West Texas. It focuses on the development of the Spraberry and Wolfcamp formations of the Midland basin; and the Wolfcamp and Bone Spring formations of the Delaware basin, which are part of the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico. The company also owns and operates midstream infrastructure assets, in the Midland and Delaware Basins of the Permian Basin. Diamondback Energy, Inc. was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Midland, Texas. | | View Today's Stock Pick |
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